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20,000 Streets Under the Skyby Patrick HamiltonISBN 0701207515 (0-7012-0751-5)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. [via]More editions of American Psycho:
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Another Countryby James BaldwinISBN 0679744711 (0-679-74471-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolutionby Sheila JeffreysISBN 0814741800 (0-8147-4180-0)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Hardcover, Women's Press - Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution: ISBN 0814741797 (0-8147-4179-7)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr - Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution: ISBN 0814741800 (0-8147-4180-0)
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Bad Behaviorby Mary GaitskillISBN 0679723277 (0-679-72327-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Balconyby Jean GenetISBN 0802150349 (0-8021-5034-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Beyond Blackby Hilary MantelISBN 0805073566 (0-8050-7356-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtuesby Susan GriffinISBN 0767904516 (0-7679-0451-6)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Camilleby Alexandre Dumas filsISBN 080959501X (0-8095-9501-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United Statesby Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Rita Nakashima BrockISBN 0800629795 (0-8006-2979-5)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Courtesanby Dora Levy MossanenISBN 0743246780 (0-7432-4678-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courtesan'Book summary:Set amid the elegant châteaux of Belle époque France and the closely guarded world of nineteenth-century Persian women, Courtesan unfolds with the breathtaking cinematic sweep and stunning visual grandeur of an epic film. At its heart are three unforgettable women: Madame Gabrielle, the courtesan whose fateful liaison with the shah of Persia reverberates in the lives of her daughter, Françoise, and her rebellious and brave granddaughter, Simone, whose journey plunges her into the cutthroat diamond trade, where the secrets of an ancient culture may hold the truth she desperately seeks. [via]
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The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century Franceby Joanna RichardsonISBN 0785818294 (0-7858-1829-4)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story Of Harris's Listby Hallie RubenholdISBN 0752428500 (0-7524-2850-0)
Hardcover, Tempus Pub Ltd
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Daughters of Rahab: Prostitution and the Church of Liberation in Brazilby Margaret Eletta GuiderISBN 0800670930 (0-8006-7093-0)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 0808514121 (0-8085-1412-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Borderby Eithne LuibheidISBN 0816638047 (0-8166-3804-7)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Fayby Larry BrownISBN 0743205383 (0-7432-0538-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fay'Book summary:Larry Brown's Fay picks up at the precise moment when its 17-year-old heroine walks out of his 1991 novel Joe. And really, who could blame her? Fay's father, Wade Jones, was one of the most enduring villains in recent fiction, the kind of man who would trade a son for a car and a daughter's virginity for a few $20 bills. Reared in migrant camps, tarpaper shacks, and, most recently, an abandoned cabin, Fay herself is pretty, goodhearted, astonishingly ignorant: in other words, trouble in a too-tight dress and a pair of rotting tennis shoes. Fleeing her father's advances, she takes to the Mississippi road in a passage that, with its rough music, is pure Brown:
She came down out of the hills that were growing black with night, and in the dusty road her feet found small broken stones that made her wince. Alone for the first time in the world and full dark coming quickly. House lights winked through the trees as she walked and swung her purse from her hand. She could hear cars passing down the asphalt but she was still a long way from that.
For the first time, Brown narrates most of a novel from a woman's point of view, and while the result is every bit as gripping as his previous work, it is also more inward-looking. Joe, for instance, reads like something carved out of a block of granite; in Fay, Brown feels somehow closer to the story--almost tender, or as tender as a writer with such an unflinching gaze can be. As Fay hitchhikes her way down Highway 55, from the woods near Oxford to the beaches and strip bars of Biloxi, she draws both men and violence to her like a magnet. Utterly without envy or self-pity, she is a force of nature, pure and simple, and Fay illuminates just how deadly her kind of innocence can be.It's no value judgment to say this book is about white trash. Brown knows it, the reader knows it, Fay knows it; at one point, she even muses, "She never had been called a white trash piece of shit before but she'd been called white trash." But don't mistake Brown's work for mere trailer-park sociology. Despite the redneck trappings, the Jones family has been with us since the beginning of time, and their story, like all tragedies, is both larger than life and just like it too. "White trash," after all, is just another way of saying "not many choices." In writing about lives stripped down to their essentials, Brown reminds us of the dark truths our choices sometimes allow us to forget. --Mary Park [via]
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Female Sexual Slaveryby Kathleen BarryISBN 0814710697 (0-8147-1069-7)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Francois Villon: Complete Poemsby Barbara N. Sargent-BaurISBN 0802071929 (0-8020-7192-9)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Freedom Of The Streets: Work, Citizenship, And Sexuality In A Gilded Age Cityby Sharon E. WoodISBN 0807856010 (0-8078-5601-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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From the Files of "True Detective: Hooker Killersby Rose ManelesbergISBN 0786000066 (0-7860-0006-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Geisha : A Lifeby Mineko IwasakiISBN 0743444299 (0-7434-4429-9)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha, a Life'Book summary:Now in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha). Her ascent was difficult, not merely because of the hard, endless training she had to undergo--learning how to speak a hyper-elevated dialect of Japanese and how to sing and dance gracefully while wearing a 44-pound kimono atop six-inch wooden sandals--but also because many of the elaborate, self-effacing rules of the art went against her grain. A geisha "is an exquisite willow tree who bends to the service of others," she writes. "I have always been stubborn and contrary. And very, very proud." And playful, too: one of the funniest moments in this bittersweet book describes a disastrous encounter with the queen of England and her all-too-interested husband.
Revealing the secrets of the geisha's "art of perfection," this graceful memoir documents a disappearing world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Geisha, A Lifeby Rande Brown, Mineko IwasakiISBN 0756781612 (0-7567-8161-2)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquityby Sarah B. PomeroyISBN 080521030X (0-8052-1030-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Haremby Dora Levy MossanenISBN 0743230213 (0-7432-3021-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Harlots, Whores and Hookers: A History of Prostitutionby Hilary EvansISBN 080082119X (0-8008-2119-X)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Have You Seen Me?by Laura DenhamISBN 0786710624 (0-7867-1062-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Hello Darling, Are You Working?by Rupert Everett, Frances Crichton StuartISBN 0688117864 (0-688-11786-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Honey Wellby Gloria MalletteISBN 0758204671 (0-7582-0467-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Hunting Down Amandaby Andrew KlavanISBN 074340338X (0-7434-0338-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Name of the Working Class: The Inside Story of the Hungarian Revolutionby Sandor KopasciISBN 0802100104 (0-8021-0010-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger, Joseph ClaroISBN 0812034074 (0-8120-3407-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Josephine Butlerby Jane JordanISBN 0719555841 (0-7195-5584-1)
Hardcover, John Murray
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Kushiel's Avatarby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0765347539 (0-7653-4753-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Phèdre nó Delaunay is a woman pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. Her path has been strange and dangerous, and through it all the devoted swordsman Joscelin has been at her side. Her very nature is a torturous thing for them both, but he is sworn to her and he has never violated his vow: to protect and serve.
But Phèdre's plans put Joscelin's pledge to the test, for she has never forgotten her childhood friend Hyacinthe. She has spent ten long years searching for the key to free him from his eternal indenture, a bargain he struck with the gods-- to take Phèdre's place as a sacrifice and save a nation. Phèdre cannot forgive-- herself or the gods. She is determined to seize one last hope to redeem her friend, even of it means her death.
The search will bring Phèdre and Joscelin across the world, to distant courts where madness reigns and souls are currency, and down a fabled river to a land forgotten by most of the world.
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802137784 (0-8021-3778-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Last Words is a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death. While laid out as simple diary entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns - his rants on U.S. drug policy, his contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his cats - permeate the book. Burroughs breaks into classic "routines" and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow thrillers. Whether occupied with the banalities of life (housekeeping, dealing with doctors) or the glories (shooting a video with U2, opening a museum show of his paintings), the "Old Man" emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, and always engaged-a commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window onto the preparations Burroughs was making for his own death - a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process-one that never quit, even in the shadow of death. [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0685113973 (0-685-11397-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtryISBN 0684857529 (0-684-85752-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Dove'Book summary:Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. [via]
Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from the Portable Lower East Sideby Kurt HollanderISBN 0802134084 (0-8021-3408-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Madamby Julianna BaggottISBN 0743454588 (0-7434-5458-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Medieval Underworldby Andrew McCallISBN 0750937270 (0-7509-3727-0)
Softcover, Sutton Publishing
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My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life And Outrageous Times Of Grace Dalrymple Elliot, Royal Courtesanby Jo ManningISBN 074326262X (0-7432-6262-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nell Gwynby Derek ParkerISBN 0750927046 (0-7509-2704-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008686 (0-7710-0868-6)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oryx and Crake'Book summary:In a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then. . . . He generated awe . . . in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds, gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humour. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Our Lady of the Flowersby Jean Paul Sartre, Jean GenetISBN 0802130135 (0-8021-3013-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Pattiby John BentonISBN 0800783468 (0-8007-8346-8)
Softcover, Revell
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074327329X (0-7432-7329-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
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The Pillars of Solomonby Jon LandISBN 0812566726 (0-8125-6672-6)
Softcover, Forge
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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Parisby Jill HarsinISBN 0691054398 (0-691-05439-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Price of Pleasureby Joan Elizabeth LloydISBN 0758201087 (0-7582-0108-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Prostitution of Sexualityby Kathleen BarryISBN 0814712770 (0-8147-1277-0)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stressby Melissa FarleyISBN 0789023792 (0-7890-2379-2)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Querelleby Jean GenetISBN 0802151574 (0-8021-5157-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Querelle'Book summary:Regarded by many critics as Jean Genets highest achievement in the novel certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation.[via]More editions of Querelle:
Radical Feminismby Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone, Anne KoedtISBN 0812903161 (0-8129-0316-1)
Hardcover, Quadrangle Books
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Rent Boys: The World Of Male Sex Workersby Michel DoraisISBN 0773529039 (0-7735-2903-9)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Sanctuaryby William FaulknerISBN 0679748148 (0-679-74814-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanctuary'Book summary:First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social values and order. A sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil. Students of Faulkner have found an allegorical interpretation of "Sanctuary" as a comment on the degradation of old South's social order by progressive modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co-horts represent this hurling change that is corrupting the historic traditions of the South, symbolized by Horace Stevens, which are no longer able to protect the victimized Negro and poor white trash due to middle-class apathy and inbred violence. [via]
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Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Womenby Tomoko Yamazaki, Karen Colligan-TaylorISBN 0765603543 (0-7656-0354-3)
Softcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentinaby Donna J. GuyISBN 0803270488 (0-8032-7048-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailandby Leslie Ann JeffreyISBN 0774808721 (0-7748-0872-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Sex Work and Sex Workers: Sexuality & Cultureby Barry M. Dank, Roberto RefinettiISBN 0765804913 (0-7658-0491-3)
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The Sexual Contractby Carole PatemanISBN 0745604323 (0-7456-0432-3)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Sexual Culture of Ancient Greeceby Daniel H. GarrisonISBN 080613237X (0-8061-3237-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminismby Janice G. Raymond, Dorchen LeidholdtISBN 0807762385 (0-8077-6238-5)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary a Non-Fiction Account, with Commentaries, of Three Days and Nights in the Sexual Undergroundby RechyISBN 0802131638 (0-8021-3163-8)
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 080505801X (0-8050-5801-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Suicide Blondeby Darcy SteinkeISBN 0802136648 (0-8021-3664-8)
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Take Back the Night: Women on Pornographyby Laura LedererISBN 0688087280 (0-688-08728-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Thief's Journalby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130143 (0-8021-3014-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief's Journal'Book summary:The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstructs his early adult years -- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. "Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style." -- Susan Sontag; "One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper. . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away. The Thief's Journal will undoubtedly establish Genet as one of the most daring literary figures of all time." -- The New York Post[via]More editions of The Thief's Journal:
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphsby William T. VollmannISBN 0802133959 (0-8021-3395-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industryby Jeremy SeabrookISBN 0745317561 (0-7453-1756-1)
Softcover, Pluto Pr
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The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909by Josie Washburn, Sharon E. WoodISBN 0803297971 (0-8032-9797-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Franciscoby Benson TongISBN 0806132841 (0-8061-3284-1)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Works of Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0681410566 (0-681-41056-6)
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